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Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
The Macroterranean Way
Season 3
Episode 301
Chef Christina Pirello has spent her career straddling worlds: Mediterranean eating and macrobiotics with a bit of Chinese Medicine. Both focus on great food and wellness and the marriage of the two is a delicious and unique way to nourish ourselves. Recipes include crostini with black kale & agrodolce shallots, orecchiette with cauliflower, pine nuts & raisins, and fregola salad with zucchini.
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The man famous for “I’ll be back” said “Hasta la Vista” to meat. Can we be big and strong?
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Alberobello, famous for houses called trulli. For me, it’s almonds and figs that enchant.
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Is there more to food than food? There are nutrients we see and energy we feel.
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Can our ancestral past help us move into the future? Let’s see how our ancestors evolved.
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Variety is the spice of life. Nothing stimulates like hot spice, from ginger to chilies.
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1 in 10 Americans eat recommended servings of vegetables; I have my work cut out for me.
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Italians love tradition, the foundation to build on wisdom. Today, we’ll visit Altamura.
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The life expectancy in America is 79 years of age, 42nd in the world. Could we do better?
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So much debate about oil. We need only look at ancient history for the answer.
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Christina travels to an ancient town in Tuscany that has produced chestnuts for centuries.
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Christina meets a former New York police officer who has landed in a small town in Italy